More Details

Summary:

""Boys' love," a male-male homoerotic genre written primarily by women for women, enjoys global popularity and is one of the most rapidly growing publishing niches in the United States. This collection of 14 essays addresses boys' love as it has been received and modified by fans outside Japan as a commodity, controversy, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Gift Versus Capitalist Economies: Exchanging Anime and Manga in the U.S. / Hope Donovan
• 2. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to Export: Capitalizing on German Boys' Love Fandom, Culturally, Socially and Economically / Paul M. Malone
• 3. Boys' Love Thrives in Conservative Indonesia / Yamila Abraham
• 4. Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction / Dru Pagliassotti
• 5. Yaoi and Slash Fiction: Women Writing, Reading, and Getting Off? / Mark John Isola
• 6. 101 Uses for Boys: Communing with the Reader in Yaoi and Slash / Marni Stanley
• 7. "She Should Just Die in a Ditch": Fan Reactions to Female Characters in Boys' Love Manga / M.M. Blair
• 8. Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction / Tan Bee Kee
• 9. Uttering the Absurd, Revaluing the Abject: Femininity and the Disavowal of Homosexuality in Transnational Boys' Love Manga / Neal K. Akatsuka
• 10. Boys in Love in Boys' Love: Discourses West/East and the Abject in Subject Formation / Mark McHarry
• 11. Queering the Quotidian: Yaoi, Narrative Pleasures and Reader Response / Mark Vicars and Kim Senior
• 12. Gay or Gei? Reading "Realness" in Japanese Yaoi Manga / Alexis Hall
• 13. Raping Apollo: Sexual Difference and the Yaoi Phenomenon / Alan Williams
• 14. Hidden in Straight Sight: Trans*gressing Gender and Sexuality via BL / Uli Meyer.

Contributors:

Levi, Antonia, 1947-

McHarry, Mark, 1951-

Pagliassotti, Dru

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Boys' love manga (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2008 — ISBN 9780786441952; LCCN 2010002971; OCLC Number 496518516)

Subjects:

Boys love (Manga) — History and criticism

Manga (Comic books) — History and criticism

Gay erotic comic books, strips, etc. — History and criticism

Male homosexuality in comics

Women cartoonists

Popular culture — Japanese influences

Manga (Comic books)

Gay erotic comic books, strips, etc.

Popular culture

Japan

Genres:

Comics criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Boys love (Manga)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations

Call Numbers:

PN6710 .B67 2008eb

ISBNs:

9780786456277 (electronic bk.)
0786456272 (electronic bk.)
9780786441952 (print, pbk.) [Invalid]
078644195X (print, pbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

642200659